ZHANG Yangyang, LUO Xuan, ZHUANG Xuli, et al. Catalytic and selective transformation of glucose to methyl levulinate with mixed acids as catalysts[J]. CIESC Journal, 2015, (9): 3490-3495.
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ZHANG Yangyang, LUO Xuan, ZHUANG Xuli, et al. Catalytic and selective transformation of glucose to methyl levulinate with mixed acids as catalysts[J]. CIESC Journal, 2015, (9): 3490-3495.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20151018.
Catalytic and selective transformation of glucose to methyl levulinate with mixed acids as catalysts
The efficient synthesis of methyl levulinate (MLE) from biomass feedstock using catalytic process is high economic
environment-friendly and sustainable in chemical industry. Herein
the catalytic performance of Lewis acid
Brøsted acid and mixed acid on the conversion of glucose to MLE is investigated in detail
and a satisfactory product yield is obtained. First
the different molecular sieves are combined with p-toluenesulfonic acid (PTSA) and employed as the catalysts for the direct transformation of glucose to MLE
in which the combination of Sn-β molecular sieve (being synthesized through a simple grinding method) and PTSA is the most efficient. The highest yield of MLE is about 68.3%. Furthermore
the catalyst is characterized by XRD
FT-IR and TG-DTG techniques. It is found that Sn-β can mediate the isomerization of glucose to fructose and PTSA mainly promote the alcoholysis reaction based on the experimental results and corresponding phenomena in the reaction. At last
the effects of Sn-β/PTSA ratio
reaction time and reaction temperature are studied